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- 1 The Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain 《道士下山》 The Taoist Descends the Mountain 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain 道士下山 A feng shui expert and master diviner, skilled in every art and proficient in them all! Those who reveal the secrets of heaven will face retribution. It isn't that it won't come, only that the time isn't right yet! Qin Hao was an orphan, taken in by an old Taoist who brought him to the mountains and taught him Taoist arts for three years. When his time was up, his master sent him down the mountain to find his seven senior sisters, supposedly to gain experience... 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain 道士下山 The Taoist Descends the Mountain 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Little Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: From the Start, I Mistakenly Snatched a Betrothal 小道士下山：开局误抢婚约 A gifted young man heads to the city to search for his mother. He promised to keep a low profile, but his nature and abilities make it impossible for him to stay under the radar. With his extraordinary Taoist arts and profound medical skills, he becomes invincible in the world before he even realizes it. 874Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 5 Don’t Mess with This Taoist Priest 这个道士不能惹 I throw punches at the nursing home north of the village and kick my way into the kindergarten south of it! I came down the mountain to keep a low profile, so why is that so hard...? 112Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 I Can Freely Travel Between the Underworld and the Mortal Realm 我可以自由穿梭地府和阳间 The god you worship at the temple may be a demon feeding on your offerings. Where do souls go after death? Why can’t the laws of Hell and the mortal world be broken? It is because of the cultivators in this world! They are defending the laws that govern the realms of the living and the dead! 184Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 7 Exorcist Partners: The Female Daoist 驱邪合伙人：女道士 The world is vast, and anything can happen. They say metaphysics lies at the end of the universe. Since even science can't explain everything, leave it to me, your humble Daoist, to sort things out. (Psst! Master says we need to promote Daoism, so this book will cover plenty of Daoist knowledge. It's for reading and learning only. If you haven't had a master, don't try to practice it on your own!) The setting is based on real events, but the story is entirely fictional. A young female Daoist hea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Guangfu Little Taoist: You Don't Want to Mess with My Master 广府小道士：我师父你惹不起 Everyone says being an immortal is wonderful! Immortals need food and shelter, too! A young Taoist sets up a stall and strange things keep happening... What? Wine? Meat? Who says Taoists can't eat those? Was there any shortage of fine food and wine at the Peach Banquet? 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Poisonous Humanity: 1945 人毒：1945 After his wife was killed by Japanese invaders, Wudang disciple Lu Li was swept into the tide of resistance against Japan, transforming from a wandering doctor into a knight-errant physician in a time of chaos. Alongside Jiang Qi, a Miaojiang witch, he wielded silver needles as swords and used poisonous parasites as shields, navigating the forces of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and Japan. From a secret cave on Wudang Mountain to a nuclear blast on Mount Fuji, and from forbidden technique —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Uncle Nine's World: My System Comes From the Underworld 九叔世界：我的系统来自地府 After transmigrating into Uncle Jiu’s world, Ling Yun becomes the first disciple of Shi Jian, the villainous senior brother, and is blessed with extraordinary talent for thunder magic. With a master destined to fall into demonic ways and a spoiled, overbearing junior brother, Shi Shaojian, Ling Yun feels the pressure mounting. Fortunately, his System comes from the highest levels of the Underworld. It has been personally authorized by Lady Pingxin, making him her “special agent” in the mortal re 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Breaking Calamity 破厄 “Blasphemy! What an outrage! How dare a mere mortal like you gaze upon a god!” Take another look at the god you speak of. Where is its compassion? If it really is a god, why won’t it let the people behold its glory? Instead, it hides behind you all. If you ask me, it’s nothing but an evil spirit that beguiles people. “It can deliver us from our suffering!” “Perhaps it’s the source of that suffering. Let this Daoist priest help you cut it off at the root!” Everyone, just watch and see how Chen Gu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I'm a Young Daoist from Maoshan 我是茅山小道士 I'm a young Maoshan Taoist. I can't earn enough to eat, life is hard, and misfortune follows me everywhere. With no other choice, I set up a fortune-telling stall, reading the winds and studying the land, interpreting hexagrams and divining people's fates. When ordinary people are in trouble, they come to me for help. When vengeful spirits have grievances, I help them find justice… 269Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn in Republican-Era China: From the Start, I Inherit a Mountain God's Legacy and Become Uncle Nine's Disciple 重生民国：开局继承山神拜师九叔 Lin Mufeng, a young man from the modern era, is unexpectedly reborn in the chaos of the Republic of China. After activating the Mountain God Legacy System, he becomes the last Mountain God. He studies under Uncle Jiu, a master of Maoshan, and uses his foreknowledge of classic storylines and his mountain god powers to make an impressive debut during the zombie incident in Renjia Town. He joins his martial uncle, Daoist Simu, in facing a borderland royal zombie, using the power of the earth’s ley 334Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Tales of the Six-Fingered Ghost 六指诡谈 [Born with Six Fingers and Rejected by Fate? I'll Crush the Boundary Between Yin and Yang!] Born with six fingers and plagued by a sinister illness, he was possessed by a ferocious beast just as ghosts and monsters went on a blood-moon killing spree! Only when his fingertip blood seeped into the Soul-Suppressing Stele did he learn that his extra finger was the key to both the Yin and Yang realms: —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 You Insult Me? I’ll Take Three Days Off Your Life 嘴我？削你三天阳寿 My wife won five million in the lottery. That very day, she kicked the door open and cackled: “Hahahaha, a cripple thinks he deserves a share?” She had no idea the Twenty-Four Chapters Scripture in my arms was growing hot Now, a hundred thousand ghost soldiers call me their Chief Steward. When I take out my brush and cross three years off her lifespan “If you think your life’s too long, keep mouthing off.” “Now, who’s begging whom?” You can sneak a bite, but could you at least stop smacking your 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Amazing Little Taoist 极品小道士 A Celestial Master descends from the mountains and sweeps through the city. Demons and monsters, beauties destined to wither, and three thousand mystical arts: none can withstand a single thought of mine! 333Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 17 The Orthodox Taoist Priest 正一道士 The scourge of evil cults has plagued the world for thousands of years. Though repeatedly eradicated, they never truly disappear. In this age of peace, a massive evil cult stands against the righteous path, seeking to destroy it and take its place. Science is revered in the modern age, and the Daoist arts have declined. Yet Daoism has been passed down for thousands of years, with many branches and schools still standing across China, and gifted practitioners emerging one after another to keep th 406Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 18 I Earn Merit by Writing 我靠码字攒功德 If you can’t see it through to the ending, don’t read this book. If you insist on reading it, read only the first three chapters. If you read the first three chapters, you absolutely have to read the extras. If you won’t listen to me, then don’t. 1.2kReads9.4Score182Shelves
- 19 The Dao Rises from the Mortal Realm 道起尘寰 The story takes place in a fictional ancient martial world, where countless sects vie for power and all kinds of people mingle. The realm is in turmoil, monsters run rampant, and ordinary people live in hardship. Taoism, an ancient sect, has long secluded itself deep in the mountains, observing the rules laid down by its ancestors and cultivating behind closed doors. But a sudden disaster shatters the peace of the Taoist temple, forcing its young Taoists to descend the mountain and step into a m 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The All-Powerful Taoist: My Livestream Takes the Nation by Storm 全能道士：我的直播火遍全国 [Livestreaming + comedy + Taoist priest + paranormal + antiques appraisal + medicine] Young Taoist priest Wang Ye is sent down the mountain by his master to find someone. With no idea where to start in the vast sea of people, he has no choice but to start livestreaming. To his surprise, he becomes famous across the country. He’s a master of fate reading and feng shui, divination, exorcising demons and capturing monsters, healing the sick, and appraising antiques and jade. “Daoist master, nothing 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Yagyu Yelang 柳生夜郎 Liu Shisan was born in the 1990s and learned folk Taoist arts from Grandpa Yun, a member of his family, from a young age. He thought he was simply gifted, but never imagined he would be drawn into the secret of how Liu Bowen of the Ming dynasty severed the dragon veins beneath the land... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Adventures of the Mystic Sect 玄门奇遇记 As for me, I'm someone who really loves telling stories, especially true stories about the people around me. Even if you don't have a drink or anything to snack on, you're still welcome to come listen to my stories. 184Reads6.7Score100Shelves
- 23 Reincarnation Brings Forth Ten Thousand Ghosts 轮回出万鬼伏 I was born in a year, month, and hour of yin, and the day I was born, thunder roared without pause. After that, all kinds of bizarre things happened, like water ghosts demanding lives, a haunted dormitory, and a strange mountain village... 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 An Old Beggar Taught Me the Heavenly Book, and I Learned to Command the Wind and Rain 老乞丐传授天书，我学呼风唤雨术 (Urban fantasy, wealth and desire in the mortal world, multiple heroines) Poor young Lu Yang does good deeds and forges good karma, earning a mysterious celestial tome. As its pages slowly open, he discovers its secrets. Can he master divine arts and gain the strength to lift a massive cauldron, with the force of a legendary overlord? Can he learn the healing arts and bring the dead back to life, restoring flesh to bare bones? Can he practice sorcery to summon wind and rain, and turn beans into 8.4kReads8.4Score1kShelves
- 25 Master, You Teach Me Taoist Magic, Yet Make Me Woo Your Fiancée 师父：你教我道法却让我泡未婚妻 "Campus Belle + Fortune-Telling + God of War + Corpse-Driving + Female CEO + Divine Doctor + Tomb Raider" A corpse-driving soul exorcist destined to become a great warlord was summoned home from a thousand miles away by his master, who had a special task for him. “Disciple, I’ve found you a wife. Go marry her and bring her home. Give me a whole brood of disciples and descendants, or else... Hmph!” “Yes, Master!” Chen Feng replied, looking crestfallen. “By the way, is she pretty?” Chen Feng sudde 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Celestial Register of Mystical Insight 洞玄天箓 [Alternate history] + [No female lead] + [Daoist arts] + [Ghosts and monsters] (The male lead is no overpowered hero. Readers looking for an indulgent power fantasy, proceed with caution.) The Taishang Ganying Pian says: perform three hundred good deeds to become an Earth Immortal; those who seek to become Celestial Immortals must perform one thousand three hundred. To prove his Dao and attain its fruit, Zhang Yuandong travels alone through a chaotic age, slaying demons and vanquishing evil, ear 158Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 27 The Daoist Master Descends the Mountain 道爷下山 Go down the mountain to marry a rich, beautiful woman, with a car, a house, and a hundred million in bride price. That kind of marriage arrangement doesn’t sound half bad. 6.3kReads8.8Score685Shelves
- 28 I Can't Hide It! This Taoist Is the Nine Heavens Thunder Ancestor 藏不住！这个道士是九天雷祖 Lin Xiao is 25, a sunny, cheerful young Taoist priest (and, of course, a little handsome). On the surface, he is the “ordinary” son of the head of the Shenxiao Sect. In secret, though, he is the genuine reincarnation of the Thunder Ancestor! He spends his days drawing talismans and playing with lightning, and can even summon Thunder Department generals down to “bond” with him. Even the Underworld gives him a wide berth: after all, he has a “VIP pass to the Underworld” specially approved by the J 3.5kReads7.6Score212Shelves
- 29 The Most Ridiculously Unlucky Little Taoist in History 史上最坑小道士 What? Master, are you messing with me? Sending me down the mountain to gain experience is one thing, but now you want me to find a wife? Aren’t we forbidden from getting married? Fine, fine! So, in my quest to find a wife, I became the most troublemaking little Daoist... They say the world has yin and yang. Just because you don’t believe in something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I’ve experienced far too many strange and uncanny things in my life, like the old woman sewing soles for shoes, and 1.9kReads7.1Score114Shelves
- 30 A Taoist Priest from the Start: I'm Invincible in the Supernatural World 开局道士，我无敌于灵异 [Fanfiction] + [Taoist priest] + [Transmigration] + [Invincible] + [Light comedy] + [Original] Seven years ago, an old Taoist conned Fang Jin into becoming a Taoist priest on a mountain. Three years ago, his master left to travel the world and never came back. Then, on this very day, Fang Jin received a mysterious phone call that changed his life forever: “Hello, there's a night parade of ghosts here, and a snow corpse protecting the way. Can you handle it?” Fang Jin: “That sounds a little trick —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The True Autobiography of a Taoist Priest 真正的道士自传 (Because this is a true story, it won’t be very long.) (A true story about a real Taoist priest.) (A must-read for anyone who wants to become a Taoist priest.) (I don’t write fantasy, so anyone who’s too deep into it, don’t read this.) A lot of people use “true story” as a pretext to write fantasy, and none of it is believable. Let’s take a look together. This is the story of how a real Taoist priest in the modern world grew up. 257Reads7.4Score114Shelves
- 32 Tales of a Taoist Priest 道士往事 Join me as I uncover the Three Realms, the Heavenly Court, the Thirty-Three Heavens, blessed grotto-heavens, magic arts, golden pills, ancient times, Gu, Zhuyou healing, feng shui, fortune-telling, divination, investigating and reading cases... demons, devils, ghosts, monsters, imps, evil masters and fallen saints... as well as the modern-day Imperial Observatory! The Three Teachings trace their origins to the Dao, which stands above the empty titles of Confucianism and Buddhism. Golden scriptur 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Even Without Money, I Can Still Cultivate Successfully 没钱的我也一样修行有成 True cultivation doesn't require money. In fact, the more you cultivate, the wealthier you become. This is a feng shui novel based on my own experience. After suffering for over a decade from an illness no major hospital could cure and sinking hundreds of thousands into debt, I finally woke up. I used what I had learned to turn my life around. Now I have enough wealth to live comfortably, own three small businesses, and enjoy a happy, fulfilling life. The story explores the Four Pillars of Desti —Reads—Score108Shelves
- 34 Science Above All: The Mystical Ancestress Has Boundless Power 科学至上，玄学老祖她法力无边 Mystery, paranormal, strong female lead, ancient ancestor, precognition. Feng Zhibai was the only spirit of precognition nurtured by heaven and earth. She had lived for thousands of years as the founder of metaphysics, ever since she first took human form! She could calculate everything, big or small, in the world, but never imagined that one day, people in the distant future would blow up the nest where she had slept for centuries! A firm believer in modern science, Feng Zhibai felt her empty p 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Yin-Yang Fate Borrower 阴阳借命师 [Traditional Supernatural Horror]+ [Feng Shui and Mysticism]+ [Suspense and Deduction] On my seventeenth birthday, I watched my best classmate die horribly right in front of me. That was when I learned someone had stolen my fate! A mysterious old man told me I was one of the Seven Wise and offered to take me as his disciple. If I refused, I wouldn’t live past thirty. When I was twenty-five, my master ventured alone into the underworld to negotiate with the King of Hell and extend my life. He ult —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Comically Awkward Taoist 神囧道士 I have a master who claims to be an unofficial eighth-generation disciple of Maoshan, but I've never seen him perform a single Daoist art. I always thought he was a fraud, until the day we took on a ritual to guide the dead for a wealthy family... 715Reads8.5Score104Shelves
- 37 Part-Time Celestial Master: The Nation Calls on Me to Hunt Evil Spirits 兼职天师，国家请我出山抓诡 "I had only just transmigrated, and before I could learn much of the Daoist arts, the old Taoist priest had already gone to heaven on a crane." "I'd barely learned the basics before they dragged me down the mountain to hunt ghosts for the state!" "And every ghost I catch turns out to be a female ghost. What's going on?" The mortal world is a mess of temptations, disrupting this poor Daoist's quiet cultivation! 1.5kReads—Score100Shelves
- 38 I Am a Taoist 我是一个道士 I'm a freak who combines the traits of a ghost, a virgin boy, and a star of ill fortune, and I also possess yin-yang eyes. I join a cursed Daoist sect. Watch as I struggle to make my way along the path of cultivation while bearing this curse. 159Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 39 The Deadly Yin-Yang Master 绝命阴阳师 I was born extraordinary. To stop me from being born, Heaven and Earth battled across the void. Half the masters of the feng shui world perished, dying with resentment in the northwest. In the end, only my father could restrain the Nine Dragons Taiji Diagram on my body by giving up his practice. To change my fate, my father arranged several betrothals for me within the feng shui world. Who knew this would only mark the beginning of calamity for the feng shui world... 448Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 40 The Maoshan Sect Leader 茅山掌教 The Dao is the foundation of the Way; arts are how it is put to use. Hidden soul-binding talismans, a life of poverty and an early death for initiates, the three Maos’ upper, middle, and lower teachings, and secret arts that leave ghosts and gods in awe! The most mysterious final patriarch of Maoshan leads his disciple Zhang Shouyi across the land, exorcising demons, exploring dangerous places in search of treasures, resolving ancient grudges, and roaming both the realms of yin and yang as he li 1.1kReads6.7Score100Shelves
- 41 A Max-Level Taoist Priest Comes Down the Mountain: You Can Read Fortunes, So Why Become a Cop? 满级道士下山，你不算卦当警察？ Zhou Yang transmigrates to a parallel world, and he's a Daoist priest? As luck would have it, he awakens a Daoist System, and one of its missions is to make him become a police officer? Fine. I may not have any professional training, but I can tell fortunes and read faces. "Hmm, your forehead looks dark to me. You've stolen things many times, and you'll soon meet with a bloody disaster." Sure enough, the man gets into a car accident the very next second. After looking into it, the police discove 155Reads7.5Score101Shelves
- 42 I Guard the Realm with My Dao 吾以吾道守山河 [Taoist Priest + Spells + National Destiny + Supernatural + Taoist Arts] Disciples of the Taoist sect command spirits and generals, exterminate evil and vanquish demons, all because the Tao endures! Has the ghost army deep in the Taihang Mountains really seized control of China's dragon vein? Could the lost Heavenly Master's sword really be on the roof of the Peace Hotel? As the Heavenly Master's representative, he actually destroys a temple with thunder and fire at the slightest provocation! He 152Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 43 With the Book of Life and Death in Hand, the King of Hell Makes Me a Judge 手拿生死簿，阎王让我当判官 Two names lie before Zhao Ming: Zhang Min and Wang Fuqiang. One of them will die in seven days! Who dies is up to Zhao Ming! Zhao Ming has inherited Old Man Leng’s legacy: a Judge’s Brush, a Book of Life and Death, and a volume called The Judge’s Notes. He has become a Judge personally appointed by the King of Hell. In the world of the living, he passes judgment on people’s fates on the King of Hell’s behalf! A correct judgment earns him an extra month of life. A wrong one costs him a year. Befo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Maoshan Taoist Arts 茅山术 “Master, why does everyone say that after the founding of the country, animals aren’t allowed to become spirits?” “Because it’s the law. Whatever is spoken becomes law. After the country was founded, no animals, plants, or anything else was allowed to become a spirit!!!” “Then why have we still run into so many demons and monsters?” “Because those were all from before the country was founded. Afterward, there are only ghosts. So you have to live your whole life carefully and keep a low profile. 3.5kReads7.4Score465Shelves
- 45 A Gatling Gun Slays Evil Spirits, and You Call Me a Taoist Celestial Master? 加特林灭诡，你管这叫道教天师？ Synopsis: [Transmigration + Rebirth + System + National Destiny Binding + Supernatural Horror + Livestreaming + Invincible] When Ye Lang wakes up, he discovers that he has transmigrated. This is a world on the brink of a supernatural apocalypse. To stay alive, he puts on sunglasses and a fake mustache, then sets up a fortune-telling stall by the roadside. [Hand-touching +1, reward: Mastery of Thunder Magic] [Contact +1, reward: Heaven and Earth Manifestation] [Contact +1, reward: Ghost-Slaying G 82Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 46 The Daoist Descends the Mountain: The Revival of Eerie Energy 道爷下山之诡气复苏 The uncanny returns, throwing yin and yang out of balance. Ghosts and monsters roam by night, slaughtering people until the human world becomes a living hell. Everyone lives in constant fear. Only I emerge from a mountain Taoist temple. I cultivate the Great Way of Yin and Yang, wield the art of slaying the uncanny, and shatter all illusions and evil spirits. Evil spirits wreaking havoc? I will suppress them with Taoist arts. The uncanny tide spreading? I will cut it down with a single sword. De 9.6kReads8.3Score694Shelves
- 47 Guarding the Canglan Sea 沧澜护海 For a thousand years, Canglan has stood by its vow, steadfast and true; with bones of iron, it has never feared the dust of war. Blood soaks the shattered halberd, yet the spirit endures; beneath the bright moon, a lone shadow keeps the cold company. The Old Lord bears his sword to save all living beings; his healing medicine can cure the people of the world. The lamp shall not go out, the road shall not end. Together, the two will journey toward the future. (Uses the world of The Outcast. The s 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Heavenly Master 一代天师 Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th 6.8kReads9.2Score975Shelves
- 49 Ghosts Knock at the Door: From the Start, I’m Rewarded with a Max-Level Golden Light Mantra 厉鬼敲门，开局奖励满级金光咒 Shen Yun woke up one day to find that the world was undergoing a strange resurgence. A cat-faced old woman outside his peephole, a hanging ghost standing on someone’s shoulders, demons and monsters bent on turning the mortal realm into hell... Fortunately, his lottery System awakened. With a max-level Golden Light Spell from the start, golden light enveloped him as he manifested invisible sword qi, decapitating demons and monsters from a thousand miles away. “Ding! Congratulations, you’ve drawn 4.2kReads6.9Score194Shelves
- 50 I, a Little Taoist Priest, Am Already Invincible 我，小道士，已经无敌天下了 A young Taoist in the Golden Core stage descends the mountain to gain experience. Broke and penniless, he arrives in the city and deliberately gets hit by a car driven by a beautiful police officer who is on duty. From then on, the two are bound together by an unbreakable bond. The young Taoist is determined to be a good citizen. He repeatedly helps the police solve cases, catches criminals, subdues female ghosts, cracks strange cases, and slays demons... Meanwhile, his extraordinary medical ski 7.5kReads8.8Score742Shelves
